If you grew up in places like Ahmedabad and Mumbai (like me), you would know that power cuts were a rare occurrence. It is just not something we were used to dealing with. Homes do not have inverters and generators as is the norm in other places. So when a grid failure caused a power cut in Mumbai for some hours, Twitter was inundated with tweets about the Mumbai #PowerCut.
The tripping of the power lines caused an outage Monday morning – the Kalwa- Padgha transmissions line tripped and resulted in city-wide outages.
Trying to get in touch with friends and family in Mumbai was impossible for a few hours.
The rest of India was puzzled by the reactions.
Kunal Khemu’s video demonstrates how Mumbaikars are simply not used to power failures the way other Indians are.
Power cuts are unusual in Mumbai.
So this hashtag started to trend – because people had nothing else to do? Maybe.
The weather in Mumbai ranges from hot to very hot. Some people realised that the fan not working is worse even than no Wi-Fi signal.
Stop your drama!
People elsewhere did not have much sympathy for the people of SoBo (South Mumbai).
Most people do not have generators or inverters. Those that do become very popular at times like these.
Suddenly those who had charged power banks had reason to feel smug.
Some jokesters thought there was an IPL angle to the whole thing.
Of course, the CM of Maharashtra and his ruling coalition also came under fire. Top government functionaries came out with statements about the restoration of electric supply.
Mumbaikars were shocked and unhappy at having no power for a few hours.
The outage brought the electric-powered Mumbai local trains to a halt and some didn’t mind.
Outages aren't that uncommon in some Mumbai suburbs.
Not sure how the visual connects to the power outage situation, but then Kangana Ranaut has a special talent for making everything about herself... even when she herself is in Himachal.
Bollywood has come in for a lot of flak recently for drug use, money laundering, etc. Perhaps there are those who blame the power outage on the dark underbelly or Bollywood as well?
2020 has been a bad year for most of us – the #MumbaiPowerCut added to it the general doom and gloom. What else you got for us, 2020, asked some of the tweeple.
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